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0:00 THEME OF SLAYER; KOREAN

0:33 welcome to the castle super “can’t block? I QUIT!” Cast! So Kamiya left platinum games. Woolie wonders why he’d do that.

 - 1:34 Is Kamiya walking into capcom now? Or starting up an indie studio?

 - 2:57 pat believes it might be because they might be going all in on GAAS games. And what he’s been doing at platinum until recently.

 - 4:06 “you should add a space harrier level…”

 - 5:26 the game design of fighting twitter. And project GG as playing as ultraman. The thought of playing ultraman but you have to deal with the social media blowback

 - 7:03 so the story is Kamiya is leaving platinum. The same sort of deal as yoko taro, someone who needs someone to hold him back.

 - - 9:18 kojima unchained. The wonder behind death stranding. This could have worked as an indie game, but it had unlimited budget.

 - 12:08 so wish you best of luck, kamiya. What’s platinum up to nowadays? And the unfortunate tagline of platinum

 - 13:57 platinum had a chance to show everyone what they’re doing. Making no money for the best games. Make games that sell at least.

 - - 15:45 diluting quality. And yoko taro figuring it out where platinum couldnt. Could have been an arcsys equivalent

 - - 17:45 granblue fantasy re:link coming soon.

 - - 18:24 remember babylon’s fall? What if scalebound had been like that…? Scalebound’s mechanics in bayo 3.

 - - 20:13 taking a peak at what microsoft thinks of certain games. Being so utterly completely out of touch. Seeing the PR people try to salvage it.

 - 22:22 stuff like astral chain is cool, but does it have an ability to carry? No. And a world of acquisitions. The sheer laughability of Microsoft trying to buy nintendo.

 - - 25:27 hopefully the switch 2 is backwards compatible.

 - 26:41 kamiya is unhinged. Pat looking at his twitter. His underpants being completely ripped to shreds.

WEEK OF THE BEAST LORDS

WOOLIE

28:11 playing titanfall 2 again. Its so nice to play it again. The flow of the game being unique. Being able to do real cool shit.

 - 31:16 they put out a patch that the servers just work now. Balancing asymmetrical design.

 - 33:20 some of the best moments in apex are comparable to average stuff you can do in titanfall. And  question on why they didnt port more stuff over

 - 36:51 what does it mean to play a dead game? How dead does it need to be before it affects your actual play? How much does multiplayer population matter by raycevick

 - 38:25 even if the multiplayer didn’t work, the single player’s still there and its amazing. Effect and cause being an amazing level.

 - 42:18 that special feeling when something you like a lot is cared about by the people that make it. An example with metal gear.

 - 43:48 so… titanfall 3…?

 - 44:33 the CSB group on PC. pat is afraid of a little cum. And no more jizz music in star wars. Country cream pie anyone?

 - - 47:15 jizz being a lame name for space music. One letter off.

 - - 47:52 lean into the bit. Ever heard of pot noodle? Getting caught with pot noodle in the UK.

 - - 49:51 jatz music is an awful name. Everything is just dicks. Some things are more dicklike than others.

 - - - 51:03 snickers dickveins. Fight for your snickers dickveins.

52:20 RE4. The age old tradition of screwing with the guy playing during a horror game.  

 - 55:09 Pat also played RE4. the new DLC separate ways, which is ada’s campaign. Ada has a grappling gun she can use in combat. Way better than the original seperate ways campaign

 - - 56:24 pat’s one complaint: ada’s VA is definitely reading words. Also, separate from complaints, its A pretty beefy campaign. Longer than re3 remake.

 - - 57:56 updates to mercenaries mode. RPD leon is now in as a reward

58:51 played MK1. there’s some glaring oversights. No lobbies.

 - 1:00:49 the levels of online play games tend to have. Titanfall having it just work.

 - 1:03:00 the unlock situation. Havok as the unlockable, shang tsung as DLC, and the tie in superhero DLC for 50 dollars.

 - - 1:05:52 pricing for their casual audience

 - - 1:08:46 no new characters. The reinvention of garbage. And Liu Kang somehow still screwing up.  

 - - 1:11:28 pat on leon being pause in the separate way DLC. the bygone days of aids and the new meaning.

 - 1:14:26 woolie attaching himself to a specific character. Geerus feeling very limited compared to the rest of the cast. And apparently kotal exists but jobbed off screen.

 - - 1:18:35 kenshi doing some stupid stuff. Woolie wishes it was a 2v2.  

 - - - 1:20:11 recursive in universe reboots

 - 1:21:36 back on thoughts of it if were 2 vs. 2 would justify its existence more. Tekken tag’s system

 - - 1:23:23 on how complex 2v2 vs. the cameo system is

 - - 1:26:12 assists that hurt both players. There are different assist types.

 - - 1:27:36 what’s the chances of the cameo system being used to inflate the price of DLC?

 - - 1:29:55 pat wanted to do the story at some point, but why is shang tsung 10 dollars?!

 - 1:30:22 the switch version, and the practice and tutorials being in their own section called learn. The pre fight banter.

 - - 1:32:08 offline is the only place you get the banter. Street fighter should have some cool intros.

1:33:09 played some more baldur’s gate III. stuff makes more sense after playing it offline. A game with no wasted space.

1:34:56 replay missions in armored core. Most are ‘do it fast.’ the rank calculator.

 - 1:37:48 ranking a run through blighttown.

 - 1:39:55 rocking double gattling guns and the pile bunker. And OS points.

 - 1:40:23 manual aiming.

1:42:09 check woolie’s schedule over at woolieversus for what he’s doing this week. He’s got a cammy player coming in and A.K.I’s this week. minh’s at TGS.

 - 1:43:08 check out the newest woolie vs. the algorithm for the next woolie vs. whatever. He’ll also do darkest dungeon

PAT

1:44:51 pat beat blaspemous 2. 100%’d it. It's a better blasphemous.

 - 1:45:47 how’s it stack up to other castlevania-like games? Its better overall, but its not as weird or interesting as the first one

 - 1:49:27 tiny things that bothers pat. Pat likes the sword in the first game better than all the weapons in the sequel. Finding the secret cherubs in the second and its exactly the same as the first. There’s no checklist

 - 1:54:08 new cutscenes are done in what feels like a worse artstyle that doesnt mesh with the game

1:55:31 pat has not watched more edgerunners. Wife lockout from watching more.

 - 1:55:54 saw an interview of chopper being prosthetics if they continued, and paige asking if they should start watching one piece. One pace and the amount of filler in one piece.

 - 1:58:43 reading the manga is hard because he’s married with a child and he wants to read with his wife.

1:59:33 pat got a free code. Cyberpunk 2077: phantom liberty. Really feels like a completely different game. Everything feels different. It looks really good, best game he’s seen visually. Ray reconstruction.

 - 2:03:30 pat is glad he waited. On always waiting 2 or 3 years later for CD projekt red. Feels done now.

 - 2:04:54 pat could probably rec it to people now. He wonders what it looks like on modern consoles.

 - - 2:06:09 Kotor II and promising that restored content, then cancelling it. There is now a lawsuit and the game is incompletable.

 - - 2:08:35 not having a proper return system for digital purchases is probably the main problem. Refunding on steam.

 - - 2:11:37 refunds for PC games is really important since you cant tell if it will even run. And people with the thought of ‘I’ll just play less than 2 hours of every game.”

 - - - 2:13:13 what do you do for games that are meant to be short?

2:14:18 go check out pat over at patstaresat! Lies of P, beating your wife (at video games), L.A. noire.

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NEWS

2:26:00 covered kamiya, kotor II lawsuit, and jizz to jatz, thats it, right? Nope, the runback for unity is here! But its too late. Trust is broken, time to switch off to godot.

 - 2:27:50 the TOS they took down? That was only because it had low views. Totally. That’s what it was.

 - 2:32:28 on the gamedev scene, people are going to finish the current game in unity, then switch to godot.

 - 2:34:21 genshin impact runs on unity. Starrail runs on unity. So many gachas running on unity. Mihoyo putting out job openings for game engine development.

 - 2:37:11 previously making fun of making their own engines, but now here’s some real reasons to have an in-house engine.

2:39:16 the internal memo from the xbox leak: the more affordable option is the one most people have which is why they want version parity.

2:40:00 on payday 3: its entirely online, the game is just unplayable on release.

 - 2:41:33 square enix and outriders. Paying people to stream it at a certain time and everyone was stuck on the main menu and couldnt play it

 - - 2:43:55 pat remembers interviewing for a telemarketing job        

2:44:38 TGS trailers! A lot dropped. Pat got invited to go play dragons dogma II in san francisco. He declined. Later learned they could only upload 6 minutes of footage anyway.

2:47:00 lots of FF7 rebirth gameplay. You can feel how much sephiroth wants cloud.

 - 2:49:08 its what cloud wanted to happen.

 - 2:50:00 segways. And will it be weird? There will be weird stuff. Absolute clown shoes, enough for a whole circus.

 - - 2:52:18 the hojo beach moment will be a whole thing

2:53:11 Like a dragon infinite wealth. On the trailer apparently being spoilers.  

 - 2:55:45 dr. han and danny trejo are there. Pat is gone.

 - 2:57:25 this is persona for adults.

3:00:13 battle royal my hero academia game. Ultra rumble.

 - 3:01:25 how will like a dragon keep one upping themselves on the titles?

3:02:25 under night 2. Tekken, p3 reload, gunvolt rhythm game. Hotel barcelona.

3:04:20 Sand land. Toriyama’s limited art palette.

3:05:32 dragons dogma II. the game they wanted to make.

 - 3:07:03 does this overlap with elden ring? No. be a dmc character and fight things from monster hunter

3:08:23 next year is also pretty crazy for games. Maybe they’ll shadow drop hi-fi rush 2 too. The prototype for hi-fi rush

EMAILS

3:10:05 emails! Send in your emails to castlesuperbeastmail@gmail.com! Pat explains the good doctor. I am a surgeon.

 - 3:13:42 tropic thunder gets funnier every day

 - - 3:14:45 is simple jack more offensive than blackface retroactively?

3:16:04 RE5 remake is coming. The bravest take: keep it the same

3:17:03 what would you call the most disappointing year for games?

3:18:33 on if DMs should lie about dice rolls.

3:24:12 grimace is a giant tastebud. RPGs, bad pacing, and falling apart in the final acts.

3:37:12 pat wants out. Just look up the clip for the good dcotor!

3:37:40 END OF PODCAST: end of theme of slayer; korean